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Fellow ADHDers, are you actually able to enjoy co-op gaming? (piefed.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by meejle@piefed.world to c/adhd@lemmy.world

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AuDHD here, and I certainly can't.

I'm specifically thinking about Big Walk, but this applies to every co-op game I've ever tried. Portal 2 co-op also springs to mind.

I figure things out way more slowly than everyone else. I have no sense of direction, so I constantly get lost and lag behind.

And the freeform, "Let's go and look at this… Oh, or, actually, we could go and look at that first…" shit is just overwhelming. Most of the time I don't really understand either of the two options, having not noticed the same landmarks as the other players – and even if I did, I can't visualise where I am in relation to them. So I just say "dunno" or "either is fine", and worry about missing out on the other option – even as I'm stuck not actually contributing anything to the game.

People walk into a new puzzle and can instantly start putting the pieces together. I could, if I had time to have a look around and figure out all the different "parts" to the puzzle… get my bearings, y'know? But in a co-op game, what invariably happens is that everyone else figures it out while I get more and more confused and feel like crying.

Either that or I end up basically being "the guy who holds the light" while the actual human players have fun all around me. 🙄

And then I get to be the "moody" guy who ruins it for everyone by having a shit time and complaining. It's unbearable, it makes me feel like such a joke of a failure of a person.

Can anyone relate? 🙈

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ETA: Thanks for all the replies, I'm loving hearing everyone's thoughts and it's made me feel SO much better. 💖

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[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I HATED co-op gaming for a long time. But in recent years, a couple of my childhood friends started playing games together online and they've set up a weekly meetup to game. It's the only real socialization we get anymore, since we all live in opposite corners of the US nowadays.

I still get frustrated playing co-op with them, because one of my friends doesn't care about following game progression and would rather just run off and dick around. And the other encourages the chaos. Actually completing a mission is a real challenge with this group.

But thanks to them, I've learned not to take games so seriously, and now I don't care so much if we don't accomplish objectives, as long as we're all having fun. We never play versus games; we exclusively play co-op, so we're always helping each other instead of fighting each other.

And yes, all of us have ADHD, so gaming is always an adventure. We might complete a dozen missions, or we might get lost on a tangent and complete 1/4 of a mission. Either way, it's fun!